Tractor+full feeder wagon=80 tonnes

[startinghandle]

Was a rep for local dealer exaggerating when he said a big farmer in the Welshpool area has big John Deere tractor and feeder wagon when full has combined weight of
80 tonnes??

 

[Rob Holmes]

Would that be Fraser Jones? I went to college with him

 

[vantage]

Was a rep for local dealer exaggerating when he said a big farmer in the Welshpool area has big John Deere tractor and feeder wagon when full has combined weight of
80 tonnes??

Only if he filled it brim full with water.

 

[Timbo]

Yes FJ and yes it would be approaching that

 

[TomD]

What is he running to be getting up to such weights ?

 

[Alistair Nelson]

Know some of these big slurry tankers are grossing out at over 55tonnes. 80 tonnes seems a little strong. 15t tractor can’t believe feeder wagon and contents weighs 65t

 

[startinghandle]

Would that be Fraser Jones? I went to college with him

Yes

 

[Hilly]

What tractor and feeder is it and what’s in it ?

 

[Martin Holden]

Would that be Fraser Jones? I went to college with him

Very probably! I would doubt 80 tonnes. Maybe 40 ish but double that I doubt unless his silage is ringing wet and dense but even then 80 tonnes GTW would take some doing.

 

[Timbo]

Custom 60cube Strautmann on triple axles pulled by a 7310R last time I went by. Mixer is 15t empty.

They would do 5 or 6 mixes a day between all the farms...

 

[Hilly]

60cube Strautmann on triple axles pulled by a 7310R last time I went by.

Massive ! But 80 tons ? Really ?

 

[Al R]

Custom 60cube Strautmann on triple axles pulled by a 7310R last time I went by. Mixer is 15t empty.

They would do 5 or 6 mixes a day between all the farms...

Nice!!! How much does a 20cuM usually weigh when full of tmr? Maize isn’t the heaviest of crops and even if it was full with straight wheat it would only be 45t (750kg/cuM)

@startinghandle out of everyone I know of the only ones with the nickname “name-bullish!t” are reps and salesmen

 

[rusty]

About the most I could get in my 22m3 JF Stoll was about 9 tonnes before it would start to come over the edge or not mix properly. The mixer was about 8 tonnes empty. When doing a concentrate premix I would do up to 12 tonnes. It would hold more but started snapping shear bolts.
I visited a large dairy near Cardif who had just bough the a 45m3 tri axle feeder pulled by a 200 and something HP John Deere that had started cracking a lot of the yard concrete due to its weight.

 

[kiwi pom]

Custom 60cube Strautmann on triple axles pulled by a 7310R last time I went by. Mixer is 15t empty.

They would do 5 or 6 mixes a day between all the farms...

How many cows?
I think I'd rather have 2 smaller ones on smaller tractors, at lest you have a plan B when it doesn't start or the mixer breaks.
Plus, who's going to buy it second hand?

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

It must of been 80 tonnes a day over 4 mixes

 

[TomD]

It must of been 80 tonnes a day over 4 mixes

That’s more like it

 

[Al R]

It must of been 80 tonnes a day over 4 mixes

Not sure how many cows fraser has but speaking to Howell quite a few years ago the milkers alone were going through 110t/day

 

[RAF]

He must have some good concrete . Or did have

 

[Pennine Ploughing]

Thinking about this, and rough fag packet calculation,
If the tractor weighs 15 ton, and feeder weigh 20 ton empty and it won't,
Silage in a pit before its cut out weighs around 660kg per cubic metre,
So if its a 60 3m mixer that would only be 40 ton of silage, and that is consolidated silage at that,
Now allow for room to mix, there would only be 25 ton in the mixer max,
So my guess is its no more than 40 gross fully loaded,
The reptile is out very much so with his figures yet again

 

[Kevtherev]

It is indeed a monster but not 80T gross train weight.